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2009 Late Summer & Fall Editor 2009 Oflag 64 Reunion Elodie Caldwell 2731 Terry Avenue Ft. Collins CO Longview WA 98632-4437 September 17- September 20 [email protected] Dear Oflag 64 Family, Printing and Mailing Kathy Ezell Time is fast approaching for our annual Oflag 64 Reunion in Ft. Collins CO and we hope you’ll be able to attend. If you’re planning to 428 Bargello Avenue come but haven’t yet registered, it’s not too late, but please send in Coral Gables, FL 33146-2802 your registration form and registration payment as soon as possible. [email protected] A reunion registration form and hotel reservation information are included on page 3 of this ITEM. Treasurer Bret Job URGENT: Please make your Hilton Garden Inn Ft. Collins 4240 Trail Ridge Ln reservations as soon as possible by calling 1-970-225-2900 or by Minnetonka MN 55345-2254 visiting the Oflag 64 personalized site, which the Hilton Garden Inn [email protected] has created for us. (Their web address is located at the bottom of page 3 in this ITEM.) The group reservation deadline is August 2009 Reunion Host 15. Reservations can be made until then or until the group block Julie Gionfriddo is sold out. 15317 Red Canyon Ranch Dr Loveland CO 80538-9184 There are two relatively economical shuttles from the Denver airport [email protected] to Ft. Collins and back. Reservations are advised by not required. #1 The Super Shuttle 1-800-258-3826. The cost is $32 per person Contributors to the ITEM one way or $96 for 3 people. Reservations can be made online at: Cindy Burgess www.supershuttle.com #2 The Green Ride Colorado 1-888-472-6656. Cost is $30 per Robert Galloway person one way or $80 for 3 people. (As the number of riders Marcia Kanners increase, the price per person goes down), Reservations can be Anne Kreutzer made online at: www.greenrideco.com Herm Littman Dale Nitz Looking forward to seeing you soon. Ted Rinehart Best Regards, Elodie Caldwell (daughter of Reid Ellsworth) 1 A LITTLE COMPANY BUSINESS 2009 OFLAG 64 REUNION - FORT COLLINS, CO Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, September 20 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, September 17 12:00 – 5:00 Check in, Hospitality Room open all evening Friday, September 18 7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast Buffet** (on your own) 8:45 – 11:30 Business meeting (also guest speaker Diane Tauser, composer of the musical “I’ll Be Seeing You”, WWII love story of Kriegy Don Waful & Cassie) 11:30 Lunch 1:00 -5:00 City of Fort Collins and Budweiser tour, shopping in Old Town 5:30 Dinner on your own and free time Saturday, September 19 7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast Buffet** (on your own - special guest coming) 8:00 – 2:30 Optional Bus tour of Rocky Mountain National Park (includes lunch) 2:30 – 6:00 Free Time 6:00 Drinks and social hour 7:00 – whenever Banquet and entertainment (Dr. Sutherland) Sunday, September 20 8:00 Breakfast (provided) 9:00 Memorial Service and good-byes The hospitality room will be open every day for those wishing to visit. ** Note: The hotel has a wonderful breakfast buffet in the restaurant daily. It is the same buffet that we would have if we paid for it as a group but is $2.00 apiece cheaper if we get it individually. Thus, I elected to do it this way except on Sunday. Julie 2 2009 OFLAG 64 REUNION - FORT COLLINS, CO Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, September 20 REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION FEE: $150 per person - This includes: Sunday breakfast, the banquet, snacks, the photographer, the meeting rooms, a continuous Hospitality Room stocked with beverages & other goodies, and the tour of the town. If you or your guest(s) plan to attend the BANQUET ONLY ($30 per person), please check the box next to your banquet choice. Banquet Choices (select one): (1) Steak (2) Chicken Breast (3) Vegetarian (good!) Registrant: Kriegy Relationship Banquet Choice Address: Phone #: Cell #: Email: Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Guest: Kriegy Relationship: Banquet Choice Are special hotel/transportation accommodations needed? Yes No If yes, please specify Optional Rocky Mountain National Park Trip = $57 per person and includes: deluxe motor coach & driver, tour guide for the day, admission to RMNP and lunch. Gratuities for the guide and driver = $1 per person for each. Tour fee payable at the reunion. **How many people in your group are expecting to take this tour? Please mail your completed registration form and check to: Julie Gionfriddo 15317 Red Canyon Ranch Dr Loveland CO 80538-9184 Email: [email protected] HOTEL RESERVATION INFORMATION Please make your Hilton Garden Inn Ft. Collins reservations by calling 1-970-225-2900 or by visiting their website at: http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/groups/personalized/FNLFCGI-OFR-20090917/index.jhtml The group reservation is under “Oflag 64” at the rate of $93+tax per night and applies 3 days prior to and 3 days following the reunion. The group reservation deadline is August 15. 3 LTC JOHN A. ALBREE from Columbus NC story of Don and Cassie Waful) noticed that the (friend of Oflag 64) sent a donation to the link in the last ITEM to the production site was Postage Fund in honor and memory of General broken and unable to be viewed. He sent the John K. Waters, with whom he served. Thanks following alternate link. so much, John, for your thoughtful contribution http://www.illbeseeingyou.org to the Postage Fund. Our Oflag 64 family is Thanks, Michael, for sending the new link. We’re certainly blessed to have such wonderful happy that Don and Cassie were able to share a support. Please keep in touch. portion of their lives with us through your site. What a great site and a great story. Please JIM BATES from Brentwood TN recently sent write again. a donation to the Postage Fund and a short note about the ITEM. Thanks so much, Jim, for your BILL CORY from Louisville KY thoughtful contribution. We greatly appreciate sent a note recently expressing all our contributors. Thanks also for your kind disappointment that the Oflag 64 words about the ITEM. Best Wishes to you. MIS-X story was not included in Hope to hear from you again. the National Geographic Documentary aired early in ABE AND EILEEN BAUM from August. He mentioned his communications right San Diego CA recently emailed a after the war with Lloyd Shoemaker, author of complimentary note along with THE ESCAPE FACTORY, regarding MIS-X. information that Abe’s story and Thanks, Bill, for writing. We agree, it was a that of the POWs (one part of a huge disappointment to learn that “our story” series of episodes on “Patton 360”) would not be included. From emails we’ve was aired on the History Channel on June 28. received, however, it appears that National Thanks, Abe and Eileen, for sharing this Geographic felt there wasn’t enough evidence information. Hopefully many of our Oflag 64 specific to Oflag 64 to include. We appreciate family were able to enjoy it. (As a side note, we the work Nils did in making available to National noticed that Patton’s biographer, Kevin Hymel, Geographic all that was available. Much work was the same Kevin Hymel who attended the was involved. Please write again. Washington D.C. reunion and presented Freedom Team Salute awards to each Kriegy in DAVID CRIDER from Birmingham AL (nephew attendance.) We hope to see you both at a of the late Woodrow Hubka) recently sent some future reunion. Please write again. helpful information regarding the spelling of a German term and resulting translation on one of ELEANOR BERTRAND from our website photo gallery pages. We appreciate Baton Rouge LA (Military updates on anything that is in error. Thanks, Historical Tours staff and friend of David, for sending the correction. We appreciate Oflag 64) has been sending lots of the extra eyes that keep us on track and agree information. Among them, she with you that the correction makes much more recently sent a web link to the sense. Please keep in touch. Department of Defense Wounded Warrior Diaries. Thank you very much, Ellie, for ELLSWORTH CUNDIFF, JR. from St. Charles all the information you’ve sent. We have added MO (son of the late Ellsworth Cundiff Sr.) found this link to the LINKS page on our website under our website not long ago and recently wrote: “Related Web Sites”. Please keep us posted on “Dad (Ellsworth Cundiff) died on January 28th of future “Americans in Enemy Hands” tours. 1997 and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. Dad stayed in the army after the war and retired as a MICHAEL CARLYLE (original musical producer Lt Colonel then went on to get his PHD. and of “I’ll Be Seeing You”, the real-life WWII love retired again in Athens, Georgia where he had 4 been a professor at the University of Georgia. compliments and a short note saying: “This is Dad contacted malaria in North Africa and at the one reunion I am really sorry I will have to miss, time of the forced march was in the hospital at because I graduated from Colorado State Oflag 64. As a result I have his POW diary and University in Ft. Collins in 1942.” Thanks, Bill, almost all of the issues of the Item in like new for your thoughtful contribution to the Postage condition.” Thanks so much, Ellsworth, for Fund and for your kind words.